Changing Portrait Characters
Lightning flashes transform these paintings (at the Disneyland and Walt Disney World Mansions) from benign to frightening. The portraits consist of:
- A beautiful young princess reclining on a couch who changes into a ferocious werecat. The werecat was originally a panther, but since 2005 has been a white tiger.
- A gallant knight (identified as "The Black Prince" in concept art) atop a rearing horse, who both become skeletal. The 2003 film's skeletal man and horse portrait is based on Napoleon rather than Edward, the Black Prince.
- A handsome young man who decays into a ghastly corpse. In 2005 at Disneyland, this portrait replaced that of a beautiful young woman transforming into an old hag, often referred to as "April–December" by fans. At Walt Disney World and Tokyo Disneyland, the Aging Man portrait can be found above the fireplace in the foyer.
- A proud galleon that devolves into a ghost ship, based on a Marc Davis concept for the Flying Dutchman.
- The beautiful, red-haired Medusa, who becomes a hideous Gorgon.
Read more about this topic: List Of Haunted Mansion Characters
Famous quotes containing the words changing, portrait and/or characters:
“A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“The Nature of Familiar Letters, written, as it were, to the Moment, while the Heart is agitated by Hopes and Fears, on Events undecided, must plead an Excuse for the Bulk of a Collection of this Kind. Mere Facts and Characters might be comprised in a much smaller Compass: But, would they be equally interesting?”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)